Assistant Editor Maggie Su: The excerpts from Marie Kare’s series How to Celebrate National Holidays: Instructions for Enjoying Pseudoholidays featured in CR Issue 15.1 offer absurd reimaginings of commercialized celebrations such as “National Pen Pal Day,” “National Gingerbread Day,” “National Higher Education Day,” “National Best Friends Day,” and “National Handshake Day.” Using imperatives in each …
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[Editors’ note: We’re hitting the pause button on our miCRo feature for the steamy vacation month of July, so this is our last piece until August. See you then!] Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: James Davis May’s carefully crafted poem below takes the abstract studies of ornithology and gender studies, and makes them particular: A singular …
Assistant Editor Maggie Su: This searing poem by Hussian Ahmed centers around the issue of child witch hunting in Africa. If accused of witchcraft, a child can be subjected to abuse, abandonment, trafficking, or rape. Ahmed skillfully imagines the rich interior life of a child forced to endure under the worst possible circumstances. Ahmed’s speaker swings …
Assistant Editor Maggie Su: A writing professor once told me that novels span decades, short stories last weeks, and microfictions are concerned with eternity. This adage holds true for Mark Wagenaar’s “The Gift.” At just four hundred words, the story details a woman’s supernatural ability to touch objects and know the names of their …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: The prose poem was born in rebellion, from surrealistic parents. It grew up nourished by juxtapositions, associative movement, a direct statement followed by a non sequitur. It studied intermediate lyrical techniques and the controversy between ragged-right or force-justified text in graduate school. And here, in Maureen Seaton’s hands, it takes …
Managing Editor Lisa Ampleman: We’re big fans of ghost stories here at The Cincinnati Review; Assistant Editor Molly Reid explained that well in a blog post last fall, highlighting stories from issue 14.2 that fell into that category. Since then, we’ve also featured another sort of ghost story on miCRo, Katie Cortese’s “Neat Freak,” …
It’s a banner day at The Cincinnati Review offices—not only do we get to come back to work after a long holiday weekend away, but our latest issue has arrived. Subscribers should see it in the mail soon, and we’re sending out digital subscriptions today too. Issue 15.1 is chock-full of literary goodness: our …
We are pleased to share the entire special feature from Issue 20.1 with craft reviews of “unreasonably good” writing in various genres, including (To use the PDF embedder to see additional pages, use the arrows on the bottom left-hand side.)
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